Title page of De inventione dialectica libri tres

The Dutchman Rodolphus Agricola was lauded by Erasmus for having been ‘the first to bring a breath of better literature from Italy’. Erasmus shared Agricola’s devotion to classical learning (especially Cicero) and his strong commitment to biblical study.

This Queens' copy is bound in a 16th century volume with De dislectica libri III by Lorenzo Valla, another writer central to the advancement of Renaissance humanism.